What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

Health, longevity, beauty, are other names for personal purity; and temperance is the regimen for all.

First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country.

Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly, nor need we but love them devotedly to become members of an immortal fraternity, superior to accident or change.